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"Analyzes Charles Lamb's retellings of Othello and Mary Lamb's of Merchant of Venice as exemplifications of their adapting practices, which paved the way for later adaptations from the nineteenth century to the present day."

Analyzes the representation of Ophelia's suicide in the First and Second Quarto texts of Hamlet, drawing connections between the depictions of Ophelia's death and early modern popular, legal, and theological responses to suicide. English summary, 241.

In describing the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, the results of its 2013 experiments, and "what some wider implications might be for Beckett Studies and its relationship to practice-based research," analyzes the intertextual relationship between "Shakespeare/Bare Room" manuscript and Sonnet 71.

Transcribes a dialogue between director Françoise Chatôt and Jean-Michel Déprats regarding the translation, interpretation, and staging of Macbeth.

Discusses the writings of Catalan literary critic Ramon Esquerra i Clivillés, including his essay "Shakespeare a Catalunya" (1935). Catalan summary, 139.

Provides a brief introduction to the Globe Theatre alongside a selective annotated bibliography of scholarship.

Provides a brief introduction to and biography of William Shakespeare alongside a bibliography of biographical studies, reference works, and journals.

Describes a fifth-grade English learning experience where students created mock sets for Midsummer Night's Dream. English summary, 2.

"Invite[s] considerations of what we might call 'original clowning practices' by examining some of the early performance conventions and traditions employed by Elizabethan stage clowns." Contrasts Renaissance English clown practices with "modern theatrical 'method' that too often works against the dynamics of original clowning practice." Argues that Falstaff in 1 Henry IV represents the "grotesque satirical description of the clown" and "explore[s] how this exemplary part can be studied for its encryption of original methods and modes of clowning."

"Explore[s] the potential of metaphor for thinking in new ways about the relationship of grammar to key issues facing school English." "Makes use of an old association between the word 'grammar' and the practice of magic" by "drawing on key figures in Shakespeare's play The Tempest." Argues that "if teachers in English can learn to re-imagine grammar as a source of magic in the work of English, they will be in a far better position to take up its available resources."